The chemical reactions that result in gene expression are complex and not yet fully understood. It is known that genes send, receive and process information to form a complex network of com- munication, but the architecture and dynamics of these networks are not fully known. Thus, one major problem is to determine how genes are linked within the cell. This process of determining the relationship between genes is known as inference of genetic networks. One way to represent the relationship between genes is to use mathematical and computer models of genetic networks. In particular, one of the models of great interest are Boolean Networks (BN), in which genes can take two states, active or inactive, if they are, respectively, expressed or not. These states may vary over time, depending on how genes are related. Our interest is in studying a case of this particular model, known as thresholded Boolean networks, where only one class of Boolean functions is used to build the GNs. To infer the thresholded Boolean networks, we use an algorithm that consists of two steps. First, we use the framework of Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) to infer sets of solutions consistent with a time series of a given set of genes. Then analyze the dynamic behavior of the solutions, filtering sets of solutions with interest for practical tests in the laboratory. Using the framework of the CSP, we constructed a solver, using the library Gecode, 2 for in- ference of consistent networks, using as input a time series arising from microarrays data. Then, by simulating the dynamics of a sample of networks found in the previous step, we were able to determine some interesting constraints to filter the set of networks. We apply our method to three datasets: two artificial, and for validation, we use a time series of an artificial network known from literature. Thus we were able to infer genetic networks sets of possible interest for laboratory tests.

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